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We actually ended out watching that upside in 10th grade French class (I was in french immersion so all of school was learning french until Jr high when it became about half and then high school it was whatever amount of French language classes needed to cover my certification, which was conveniently exactly how many they offered. So my French class by then wasn't like...learning French, it was like English class but French, I also took English class in English from grade 3 on and that was the only time we were allowed to speak English in elementary). It was supposed to show us that even a dumbass like bart could learn French if stuck in France. This teacher was found to have her water bottle be partly vodka when she left the room and someone went and smelled it.

In the commentary they talked about how this was their darkest episode so far which is absurd cause Homer's Odyssey, and I guess one of the writers had a doctor dad who he asked about the details of a triple bypass and he said 'there is nothing funny about that.'. My grandfather had a quadruple when I was pretty young and I didn't get how serious that really was at the time. He died of his 4th heart attack

ally barney

I call it the Spruce Moose! Hop in!

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I said, "hop in"

The classic era are all classics and I may be a bigger simpsons nerd than many here so I sorta know what the classics of the classics are. I think $Springfield or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling would count. It's I'm the mix but not making top ten lists in clickbait articles.

Vera said that?

I'll have a random scene or line from the Simpson's in my head for years and later find out it's everyone's favorite thing.

I would guess it doesn't count as underrated, but yeah, Homer's Enemy is the episode for me too. The B-plot doesn't even do a lot for me (okay, Grimes including "A son who owns a factory!" when angrily listing off Homer's blessings was pretty great), but every scene with Grimes is pure gold. The scene where he's laughing maniacally watching Homer drive off after tricking Homer and then stops laughing once Homer backs up into his car is amazing slapstick comedy, and the contest scene is perfection.

"Could you explain your model young man?" "Well, basically I just copied the plant we have now." Burns is immediately impressed.

YouTube guy I really like Patrick H Willems uses Lemon of Troy as his example episode for how classic simpsons nailed comedy from a structural perspective. It's really good and so is his other other stuff.

https://youtu.be/PWVKDPRYwg8

Ooh, good call! That one is good.

The Mike Reiss episode of Chapo where he goes something like "Cops have come up to me and asked if we had a cop on the writing staff because the depiction of a bumbling Police chief is too accurate. I reply "no" and then find it deeply depressing"

Bart's comet and Homer the Smithers are what you're thinking about. Bart's Comet really does get lost in the shuffle, it's a really great episode with a lot of fantastic jokes,a nice heartfelt moment and one of the best end of episode jokes of the damn series. That is a really good call.

Homer the Smithers is one I'd have to rewatch, I'd consider around average for classic simpsons which is still legendary status, even at their worst they wetr better than most. But it's been a little while since I've watched it and can only remember a few of the gags.

For the one where Bart gets a D minus, it's called Bart gets an F. Ms. Krabapel was a fantastic character and that's the episode where it really kicked off. When re-runs aired on cable 6 times a day if you had a decent cable package in the early 2000s I'd often not watch the season 1 episodes but I was glad I caught that one as a kid.

HACK THE BONE!

I get the exclusion cause it's a different beast almost, but season one kinda slaps in a way that the other seasons don't. Lisa has the best characterization early on. She's just depressed and clever but still 8.

I fucking love the tramampolone I mean trambopaline stuff, but you aren't wrong. However things not being double bolted was the reason for every failure at work for a while cause of that episode.

I said underrated. That one was the highest rated episode for a while until contrarianism happened. It's Monorail popular

LISA NEEDS BRACES

That one hits me in the 'I'm six and my mom is upset with me'

Winter episode episode guy here. Those are both good later ones.

Shau-Dere

That's be an underrated fave for sure, I've never heard that as anyone's favorite. Could you elaborate? I'm legit curious, this is a New Opinion for me